emo = emotional hardcore, hardcore and metal are close enough to me to group together - and they're too technical to just be straight up emo, it's mathcore man.

Hellscion: all those bands you listed suck but there ARE great american metal bands. The #12 and Neurosis I already posted, there's also HORSE the Band(yeah yeah 'not metal, emo' - what did I just say? I count it), Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Idiot Flesh, Detective Jabsco(was this sick ska-hardcore group from Colorado, you can find their only album online still I think, they broke up after that unfortunately), Daughters, Tera Melos, the Melvins...

emo = emotional hardcore, hardcore and metal are close enough to me to group together - and they're too technical to just be straight up emo, it's mathcore man.

Hellscion: all those bands you listed suck but there ARE great american metal bands. The #12 and Neurosis I already posted, there's also HORSE the Band(yeah yeah 'not metal, emo' - what did I just say? I count it), Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Idiot Flesh, Detective Jabsco(was this sick ska-hardcore group from Colorado, you can find their only album online still I think, they broke up after that unfortunately), Daughters, Tera Melos, the Melvins...

Neurosis is actually my favorite band

How this evaded me.. perhaps because everything they've released since like 2003(sun that never sets, the eye of every storm), although some of my favorite music, is far FAR from being stereotypical 'heavy metal'.. they seem to be taking more influence from Apocalyptic Folk like Death in June or Swans these days..

They totally ripped off other bands (this isn't the only example ) & then throw a huge bitch fit about music piracy. fuck those guys!

Accusing metallica of stealing the ideas of another band is quite bold, considering that there are at least 1000 better examples for true stealing (cough *Timbaland* cough). Metallica´s intro to Sanitarium sure sounds pretty similar to that song, as the idea is played on a guitar with clean tone and it´s in Eminor. But that doesn´t mean Metallica timbalanded Bleak House, you know.